“Illegitimacy Low Among Students”
“A contraceptive slot machine at the university would have about as much effect on illegitimacy births as a bottle of Bennington’s Irish Moss,” the district officer of the Child Welfare Division (Mr M. Lyons), said last evening.
Discussing adolescent problems at the monthly meeting of the Methodist organisation, Lifeline, Mr Lyons said proper contraception required persons to use contraceptives intelligently.
Mr Lyons said that illegitimacy was low among students compared with other groups in the community Fewer than 6 per cent of the illegitimate mothers with whom the division came in touch had university entrance or better.
The illegitimacy problem in Christchurch was serious. From a sample of 100 unmarried mothers taken by the division. 49 per cent were local, 25 per cent came to Christchurch from other parts of the South Island to have their babies, 20 per cent came from the North Island, and 6 per cent came from overseas.
More emphasis should be
placed on teaching life, rather than sex, said Mr Lyons. Sex was only a part of life, and life was a richer experience for those who had eyes to see it and ears to hear it.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31769, 28 August 1968, Page 18
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